Serious Retail
summary
A case study of evolving a classic 3‑tier OLTP/ERP system at X5 Retail Group during rapid organic growth, describing performance optimization techniques for a centralized high‑load system. Covers approaches to overcome architectural limits of proprietary platforms with minimal infrastructure cost, use of custom application metrics in monitoring, and moving toward automatic load management so the ERP could keep up with business growth.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:212014 issues and scaling
- 10:43Load and algorithm optimization
- 16:46SAP ABAP lock server problem
- 20:20Database performance issues
- 24:56Law of diminishing returns
- 31:31Summary and recommendations
- 41:53Q&A
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